Chapter 38 – The Indispensable Better Half
Sender：Qfnidaye（Anonymous），Sub-Forum：h.o.m.os.e.xual
Topic：[Confidant] f.u.c.king Annoying
Location：Luo Ming Sports Inst.i.tution Clear Jade Water BBS via YanShan University A
Century to Educate BBS
Recently he"s been very friendly with a little boy, previous they were hugging each other in
public being lovey-dovey, two days ago he even brought him to our school.
Leaving after eating and cleaning up, not taking responsibility after doing it with me, is he
still a man. I really want to castrate him!
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Sender：Sevenwind（Wind），Sub-Forum：h.o.m.os.e.xual
Topic：Re：[Confidant] f.u.c.king Annoying
Location：Luo Ming Sports Inst.i.tution Clear Jade Water BBS via YanShan University A
Century to Educate BBS
This BBS can display your IP address, want me to teach you how to use a proxy tonight?
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The difficulty of Moon Well was higher than what YeLang had expected originally, to increase the disparity amongst the players, the developers added an intensive buff on the new dungeon, the hp and attack of all the bosses and monsters were increased by 20%, this was a commonly used method by the developers, it could encourage the compet.i.tiveness of the higher skilled players, increasing the sense of glory of every kill, and could also stimulate the normal players into spending some money, encouraging them to work towards a higher objective.
On the first night of the release of the new content, just killing the little monsters along the way, Pa.s.sionate Sword had already spend half an hour"s time, it took them another two hours to meet the first boss, then two minutes into the battle the team was magnificently destroyed.
This result actually did not surprise anyone. LinShan was a new server, their progress were half a year slower than the other servers like DaiShan. As the players on LinShan progressed, they were already very familiar on the strategies of how to take down all the bosses in the dungeons, from pictures to guides to videos, they were detailed to the point where every move taken by every profession were listed out clearly. The players on the new server even while exploring had the support of the players from the older servers, they had never had the experience of facing a completely new boss.
As such it was not only Pa.s.sionate Sword who was faced with this awkwardness, all the other big guilds from LinShan all failed to progress beyond the first boss, they were even too embarra.s.sed to reveal their own progress, the best and only progress announced was LuoMing"s 50%, apparently this boss had a few phases, it had a different attacking style every phase. LuoMing had already pa.s.sed the first two phases on the first day, this progress, even on the old servers, were considered pretty good results.
As the previous team had always been farming QieLan dungeon with no difficulties, Pa.s.sionate Sword had not used YY for commanding raids in a very long time. After yesterday"s painful lesson, everyone realised that for the exploration, typing might not have been the best idea, so the guild sent a notice, from then on the exploring team members had to go onto YY to listen to commands.
When YeLang logged onto YY he unexpectedly found Bell"s lit up name in his friend list, they had added each other during the previous guild battle.
Behind Bell"s name was displayed an unfamiliar channel number, YeLang hesitated for a moment, he double-clicked and entered the channel Bell was in. Upon entering, YeLang realised it was Ninth Heaven LuoMing"s guild channel.
Just like many guild"s YY channels, there were many rooms in LuoMing"s channel, as it was still not raiding time yet, there were only a few people hanging out in the dungeon channel, most of them were in the karaoke room of the entertainment channel.
The room was public, YeLang silently entered it, listened to them for five seconds, and again silently exited it…
He then scrolled down the list, finally seeing Bell"s name appearing in the room allocated to Little Wind Chime under the PVP section, as expected, together with Bell"s name was also LuoMing Wind and LuoMing XiaoGe these two IDs.
This room was actually not locked as well, YeLang composedly entered, this was still the first time in his life that he did something like eavesdropping, but this eavesdropping was also a little too above board.
Upon entering he heard somebody speaking:
“I"ll stop the rogue, you go stop the warrior.” LuoMing XiaoGe"s name lit up.
“f.u.c.k! Boss don"t give me damage over time!”
“f.u.c.k I"ve been surrounded, you"re actually ignoring me, dumba.s.s, go go go go go!”
“Teleport teleport teleport teleport!”
Another voice called out, “Can you do it, dying so quickly?”
YeLang had heard this voice before on Mt. PaG.o.da, as the owner of this voice really deserved a beating, he remembered it immediately, no mistake, it was LuoMing Wind.
“I"ll be dead if you don"t come!”
“You think the healer"s dead?”
“Haha.”
Bell"s name was lit up for a moment, YeLang was stupefied, he could not help but increase the volume.
Bell must have saved XiaoGe then, XiaoGe"s voice also sounded happier.
“What the f.u.c.k, awesome.”
“Choose an archer, the pets are too annoying.” LuoMing Wind"s voice.
“Watch me!”
XiaoGe"s pleased cheers quickly came from YY, YeLang could guess that the other team should have fallen, as expected the match ended in a short while, XiaoGe started boasting about his recent outstanding performance.
“Boss"s attack just now was awesome!”
“What"s there to be proud about, just now if Bell wasn"t around you would have been killed by that warrior, how embarra.s.sing.”
Bell spoke up, “That warrior had a pretty high hp pool, I think his gear is should be full of level 6 life gems, if not he wouldn"t have been able to withstand the three axe blows.”
After that the three of them continued discussing other matters, but YeLang could not longer pay attention anymore, how could it be like this?
LuoMing Wind must have switched his screen, seeing Night Wolf"s name in YY, he whistled.
“Bell, there"s a guest, come and receive him.”
“What?” It was silent for a moment, then the other person"s voice sounded again, “Oh, Husband you"re here?”
His voice was full of joy, “Are you here to look for me? Once I"m done with this match I"ll accompany you.”
“What the f.u.c.k, can you be a little more professional,” XiaoGe spoke up. “We"ve only fought how many matches?”
“Accompanying Husband is more important, who do you think you are?”
In comparison to Bell"s relaxed joy, YeLang"s mood had dropped drastically, a move of his hand, without a word he left LuoMing"s YY channel.
He had thought LingYang and Bell were both YanShan students, both Pale Soul players, both with hand injuries, both got dizzy near water, with so many clues he could pretty much conclude that they were the same person, after LingYang fell into the pool, he was very sure of his conclusion.
But Bell and his two friends insisted that it was Bell"s little finger on the left that was injured, while LingYang had injured his other three fingers. Even if the team of three had colluded with each other and lied to him, how to explain the matter that LingYang was clearly with him that afternoon, but Bell was online the entire time?
YeLang had met LingYang thrice, the first time neither of them spoke, the second time they had talked quite a bit to each other, the third time he had already remembered LingYang"s bright and clear voice, even through the distortion online he was sure that he could identify it.
But who was that unfamiliar voice just now in YY? YeLang swore that he had never heard that voice before.
Could it be that the coincidences between the two of them were really just coincidences?
YeLang who was originally close to discovering the truth, now had to discard all his previous evidence.
After YeLang exited the channel, a tinkling laughter came from YY, that was a standard female voice, although bewilderment may be felt after paying close attention to it.
“What the f.u.c.k, switch off that d.a.m.ned voice-changing application of yours, it"s making me sick!”
The female voice spoke again, “Hey, why did my husband leave so early, if not I could perform my impressive ability in changing my voice for him.”
“Continue playing, sooner or later you"ll burn yourself.” LuoMing Wind spoke.
An old voice sounded, “I"m an unlucky gambler, gambling my acc.u.mulated 16 years and losing it all in one night, now that I"ve managed to somewhat free myself, you think I"ll still dare to go all in without any consideration?”
LingYang finally returned to using his own voice, “Dear, I can"t afford to lose.”
[Whisper] Bell: Husband~~ Why did you leave without saying anything?
[Whisper] NightWolf: It"s nothing.
[Whisper] Bell: Wait for me to finish this match we"ll go fight 2V2.
[Whisper] NightWolf: I don"t feel like fighting tonight, you guys go ahead.
[Whisper] Bell: Why?
[Whisper] NightWolf: No mood.
[Whisper] Bell: Wuwuwuwu then ok T^T
[Whisper] Bell: Right, I"ve sent you an email please look at it carefully ~(≧▽≦)/~
YeLang opened his inbox, there was really another email from littleflyingantelope.
The email had a zip file attached to it, he opened it after downloading and discovered that it was the guide to defeat the first two phases of the first boss, there were both screenshots and words, from the boss"s abilities to the coping strategies, everything was written in detail, even the MT"s path was drawn clearly on the screenshot.
It could be seen that the guide creator was also still feeling their way through, as this was clearly a draft exploration guide, many areas were marked with a ‘?" sign, some places were marked clearly that it was yet to be verified, until the boss reached 50% hp, the guide ended, with three letters: TBC.
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Under YeLang"s voice commands, Pa.s.sionate Sword"s exploration today was much more successful than yesterday, at least it was not a group of people after applying buffs rushing to die, they managed to get to the second phase of the boss, their best run pushing the boss down to 62%, towards a team that only focused on exploring, this progress could be considered pretty good, Mourning Mo was very surprised with the result.
[Whisper] MourningMo: How did you know to fight like this here?
[Whisper] NightWolf: I saw a guide.
Mourning Mo was even more surprised.
[Whisper] MourningMo: Where did you see this guide? This dungeon was just released,
there"s no one releasing any guide on this boss.
YeLang did not want to explain it, he brushed past it.
[Whisper] NightWolf: A friend sent it to me, their internal guide.
During the next few days, YeLang would receive an email from Bell everyday, following LuoMing"s dungeon progress, Bell"s guide also became more and more complete, even planning out the roles of each profession.
There were also more and more screenshots in the compressed folder, listing out the position and path of everyone in the team, Bell even asked for the name list of Pa.s.sionate Sword, a.s.signing the team members accordingly for Pa.s.sionate Sword to have the best possible results.
YeLang was starting to get used to sending Bell the DPS and healing records as well as the battle records after the end of the raid every day. Bell only had to look at the battle records once and then was able to quickly and accurately point out the reasons for the team"s destruction, pointing them out to YeLang the next day, and highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of every member. YeLang discovered that Bell"s had a very wide knowledge on the various professions, he was very familiar with nearly all the skills and abilities of every profession, as though he had studied them before.
With Bell"s help, Pa.s.sionate Sword"s progress from being the fourth or fifth on the server became the second, following closely behind LuoMing, often a day or two after LuoMing had settled a boss, news of Pa.s.sionate Sword killing the boss followed as well, many players now saw Pa.s.sionate Sword in a new light, the guilds who used to be ahead of Pa.s.sionate Sword also tried their hardest to catch up.
In the eyes of YeLang, Bell was always a representative of ditziness, but he would become very serious when talking about the battles, as though he became another person. Sometimes when something could not be understood through typing, the two of them would go onto YY and talk, Bell was still that low and slightly hoa.r.s.e voice, a voice that YeLang had never heard before in real life.
When explaining how to beat the various stages of the dungeon, Bell would still jokingly call YeLang husband. Hearing this word was a very different feeling from seeing this word, each time YeLang heard a strange man calling himself husband he would feel an inexplicable sense of incompatibility.
As such, if at the start Bell was a contract wife forced to stay by YeLang, next, a hara.s.ser who not only kept creating trouble for YeLang but also kept going crazy over him, then today, even YeLang had to admit, Bell had now already became an indispensable teammate.
On the other side, in the 3D world, the annual college town sports compet.i.tion was happening, YeLang"s training increased, if he did not have cla.s.ses in the afternoon, he would be in the pool. Since young XuXian was YeLang"s loyal swimming fan, as long as YeLang was partic.i.p.ating in that compet.i.tion, he would definitely be there to cheer him on, bringing along BaiLong who was also there during the qualifiers.
Today was inter-school qualifiers for swimming, there was a large audience, as always, XuXian sat by the pool and looked after YeLang"s bag, and also helped YeLang to answer his phone.
YeLang successfully pa.s.sed the qualifiers and went to XuXian to collect his key. Looking around him, he finally could not help but ask, “Why didn"t your roommate come?”
XuXian"s jaw dropped, only answering after a long period of time, “I"ve asked him, but he said he didn"t want to see water.”
YeLang felt a little disappointed.
XuXian exchanged glances with BaiLong, “Then, the basketball finals would be held at the military school in a couple of days, I"m going with BaiLong to watch it, would you like to join us?”
The basketball finals were just a day before the swimming finals, YeLang could not decide whether to go watch the compet.i.tion or stay back and train.
“… YangYang is going as well.” XuXian added.
YeLang nodded, “Ok.”
BaiLong gave YeLang"s departing figure a side-eye, “Are you sure your childhood friend is straight?”
XuXian did not know how to reply.
BaiLong laughed coldly, “A straight guy would store LingYang"s photos in his phone?”
XuXian really did not meant to peep, the main reason was that it was very easy to select the alb.u.m key when YeLang"s phone was on standby. XuXian was only helping him to answer a call, who would have known he would accidentally play a slideshow.
“I…… He……” XuXian suddenly felt that his world views had been subverted, “If he really… Would you…?”
“As long as it"s someone LingYang likes, even if he is a straight guy made of t.i.tanium, I would also help him bend him.”
XuXian was completely speechless, “Why does it sound like you"re actually the one interested in YangYang?”
BaiLong shook his head, “This is something I owe him.”
The author has something to say:
The author has a busy buff on the weekend, exploring isn"t easy!
The DPS partic.i.p.ating in the new event:
[AnAn] landmine x1, [Just] landmine x1, [Division] landmine x2, [ZiFeiYu] landmine x3, finally it"s [Ji] landmine x3, one of it landed on the gla.s.s outside, this aiming ability must have been learnt from T.Rex.
Today"s drop is cooler:
[An Anti-Spoiler Note]: What does Little White Dragon owe YangYang? It"s written at the start of the first chapter…